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Hi Itamar,

              me too I am not very taxonomy inclined but some are. That said first Bloom level is easier than last one

For the equation part of Socrate, it is treated as relation as all other things.

The trick or the challenge of Socrate is to completly separate, isolate,  the domain of knowledge from the exercices we want to suggest to our students. The teacher never edit a question, Socrate generate questions based on predifined questions models. For sure if a teacher want to manually edit a question, all Moodle features are always available but outside the generation process of Socrate.

Socrate started few years ago and at that time my organisation use a Québec government LMS Decclic and for my departement I choose Moodle. In it first start of it life, Socrate was a Visual Basic that create Scorm/HTML exercices based on CourseLab. These exercices, mostly their HTML forms, were compatibles with Moodle and Decclic. If you want to see the look of the questions generated at this moment check that Socrate "auto-presentation" ! ( be patient the file is heavy )

The knowledge, to be interpreted as pseudo facts or as rules, is entered in a 3 columns format:

Concept,        Property,   Value

Accélération , Définition , Accroissement de la vitesse
Accélération , Définition de l'unité , m/s2
Accélération , Équation , a = F / m
Accélération , Grandeur , Accélération
Accélération , Symbole de grandeur , a
Accélération , Symbole de l'unité , m/s2
Accélération , Unité , Mètre par seconde carré
Accélération , Voyelle , A
Accélération , Genre , f
...

Tension , Définition , Énergie divisée par une charge
Tension , Équation , V = R * I
Tension , Équation , V = W / Q
Tension , Grandeur , Tension
Tension , Symbole de grandeur , V ou E
Tension , Symbole de l'unité , V
Tension , Unité , Volt
Tension , Définition , Énergie divisée par une charge
Tension , Équation , V = R * I
Tension , Équation , V = W / Q
Tension , Grandeur , Tension
Tension , Instrument de mesure , Voltmètre
Tension , Negative , Inverse
Tension , Représentation graphique , Source de tension
Tension , Représentation graphique , Batterie
Tension , Symbole de grandeur , V ou E
Tension , Symbole de l'unité , V
Tension , Unité , Volt
Tension , Genre , f

These simple statements are interpreted by Socrate as pseudo facts or rules:

Tension , Genre , f

concept(Tension , Genre , f)

The teacher or author enter simple text to describe it domain in 3 columns but Socrate can interpret these as pseudo Prolog.

Many question models are ( will ) be available from the simple that ask to recognize the definition of the concepts to those more complex that include the equation property. For example one model ( I will post images only tomorrow VB not installed on my new computer! ) include 5 differents curves generated with Geogebra applet. The equation curve and 4 distractors curves with each a slightly different equation to see if the student recognize the curve.  Many more questions models can/will imaginated as numerical calculations problems. These models are applicable to equations V = R * I, a = F / m, V = W / Q, ...

 Socrate use also fact about concepts ( gender, plural, ... ) and apply agreement rules to compose good sentences.

Thanks for reading seriously Socrate,

Bernard

Hi Itamar,

               here is the Socrate prototype ( not to be use by end users only by me ) done to check the feasibility of the project and to check some concepts:

As you see It was named PrologForNext because I was convinced that the interpretation of simple pseudo facts and rules like Prolog is the way to minimize the semantic gap for course authors by allowing them to use a sort of declarative language to generate their activities. The ForNext was to mimic Prolog chaining in a procedural language with ForNext loops.

 You see 6 Geogebra curves ( instead of 5 as I said in my previous post )  generated in a web page displayed in a VB Browser windows to test the real curve related to the equation relation and 5 others curves as distractors for a multichoice question.

Now a prototype of SQL query to, again, to mimic Prolog chaining in a  SQL query instead! The interpretation of these rules are essential to generate sentences that keep in account agreements of words and to generalise questions in using concepts properties.

Last one part of directory listing:

At that time Excel was the tool for creating concepts with a sheet with 3 columns and a macro to convert theses in txt for importing in VB.

The generator itself modify an XML file created by CourseLab ( in another folder ) to add questions to it, create 3 txt files with questions for importing in Moodle Gift format, 2 XML files for importing in Moodle and 1 Prolog file .pl to check if my generated stuff give the samething as a real Prolog program interpreted by SwiProlog!

Last year my organisation did'nt gave me time to work on that.

This year I have 1.5 day by week to redo it uniquely for Moodle. A lot of pleasant work to do!

This is Socrate story

Salutations from Québec,

Bernard